World-News

By John F. Kennedy

What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33120.htm



An American Moral Crisis: Dennis Kucinich

Op-Ed

It s easy to forget sometimes, but here s the world we are living in: over the past several years, the United States has conducted hundreds of drone strikes under the secret authority of the CIA-which is accountable to no one-resulting in the deaths of several thousand people.

http://is.gd/oBFqXd



How Washington Makes Love for War

What Paula Broadwell teaches us about the foreign-policy elite.

By Justin Logan

The Washington foreign-policy elite is an insular, cosseted clique.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33124.htm



U.S. Considers Increasing Military Presence in Mediterranean

Senior U.S. military officials are considering increasing the American military presence in the Mediterranean because of what they see as growing instability in recent months. ''This is post-Benghazi,'' one military official told CNN. ''We are looking at instability in Libya, Egypt, Syria and now Israel and Gaza.''

http://is.gd/pFEiou



Washington s Role in the Renewed Violence in DR Congo

The outbreak of fighting is also the result of a colossal failure by US foreign policy-makers dating back to the mid-1990s, aided and abetted by an ill-led United Nations peacekeeping force that stood by as the M23 seized Goma.

http://is.gd/kn7CAy



Police State USA

U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens

By JULIA ANGWIN

The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33318.htm



Slavery s Global Comeback

By J.J. Gould

There are now twice as many people enslaved in the world as there were in the 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33397.htm



A Wee Comparison of Civil Liberties in the United States of America

By Kevin Drum

The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33485.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The United (Police) State of America
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey139.html

US: We Initiate Terrorism To Create Terrorists To Overthrow Governments
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/terrorism-to-create-terrorists.html

The Police State vs. the Internet
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rosenberg-p9.1.1.html

Fighting for Family and Freedom in Your Own Backyard
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/red-dawn.html

The true roots of US imperialism
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo198.html

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America s Future: War and Peace in the 21st Century

Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: Despite the political rhetoric, America is not defined by its division into red and blue states, but by its addiction to imperialism, exceptionalism and a military budget that positions it as The United States of War.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12980-americas-future-war-and-peace-in-the-21st-century



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